Zygote.†
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Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale, 1985
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One egg, one sperm, one zygote, divided, sharing one complete set of genetic markers.†
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Ellen Hopkins, Identical, 2008
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This is the zygote.2 For here "I lost my land" is changed; a cell is split and from its splitting grows the thing you hate—"We lost our land.†
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John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath, 1939